Encaustic Art Book – Basics (Michael Bossom, 80 pages)

A fantastic introduction to Encaustic Art THE ORIGINAL: painting with an iron and coloured wax blocks on card. Ideal for complete beginners and those familiar with basic encaustic art. Hundreds of step-by-step photo sequences explain creative ideas and developing techniques.

Michael Bossom: techniques covered

• Starting: what you need
• Layout of work area
• First go
• Understanding colour
• Two-colour harmonic mix
• Pattern types
• Multicolour wax application
• Creating borders
• Iron hotplate mode and ideas
• Marquetry cards and their development
• Creative folding cards
• Aperture cards and circular cuts
• Die-cutting and creative card design
• Landscape structure and first landscape
• Landscape faults
• Full-iron landscape
• Four horizon shapes
• Printing wax onto fabric and examples
• Tissue work with wax and ideas
• Wax and doilies
• Rubber stamping
• Clear polymer stamping
• Encaustic stamping ideas
• Fantasy castles, visions and imagination
• Stylus for graphics
• Colouring-over: beginnings, development and variations
• Looking ahead and final thoughts

English-language softback book; 80 full-colour pages; A4 (210 × 297 mm); book weight 425 g.